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Proposed budget allows CDC to study gun violence, researchers skeptical
Congress passed an amendment in 1996 limiting the Centers for Disease Control's ability to study gun control. That may change with the new budget, but gun violence researchers aren't impressed.
Omissions on death certificates lead to undercounting of opioid overdoses
Standards for how to investigate and report on overdoses vary widely across states and counties. As a result, opioid overdose deaths often go overlooked in the data reported to the federal government.
New peer hotline seeks to help firefighters facing mental health crises
The Minnesota Firefighter Initiative recently launched a peer support help line for firefighters who are thinking about suicide. Any Minnesota Firefighter can call if they're thinking about or planning to take their own life. Just three months in, they are already surprised by the number of calls they've gotten.
A MNsure review found roughly one quarter of people enrolling after the annual open enrollment period closed had failed to document their eligibility.
'Music is a prayer': Minnesota woman finds her voice in hospice
An intractable rule of life is that you will die some day. For most of us, the time and place and manner of death are yet to be decided. Mandy Blume of Faribault has a pretty good idea of what may eventually kill her: cancer.